If you are a podcast listener, you can easily decide whether I'm right just by reflecting on the kinds of ads you've heard, and whether that sounds like a sustainable financial basis for the medium. Feel free to post examples to the thread.
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And if you know of (or want to help me build) a pod2text service for people who don't want to listen to some beardo chewing peanuts on a live mic, hit me up.
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Just remember the famous pivot to video, where ad networks persuaded newsrooms that from now on we were going to get all of our news from short video clips, and how that went.
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Just from a bare economic argument, it's incontestable that podcasts are overhyped, and that soon the majority of Americans will be getting their news from a live stream of someone in a Sailor Moon costume playing video games for eight hours.
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If someone's idea of having a successful podcast means they're getting paid to sell mattresses and underwear, maybe they should try a job in retail instead. I have much disdain for the attempted widespread monetization of internet content through advertising.
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What is the author's context where everyone around them has a podcast? I don't know a single person with a podcast; plenty with twitch streams.
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